"In year 1999 the EURO working group on Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding celebrated 25 years of activity, that is 50 regular meetings. This book contains a selection of papers presented at the 49th meeting (which took place in Milano and Como, Italy, 18-19/3/1999) and 50th meeting (which took...

Young people have been hit hard by unemployment during the Irish recession. While much research has been undertaken to study the effects of the recession on overall labour market dynamics, little is known about the specific effects on youth unemployment and the associated challenges. This paper...

This paper analyses convergence in per capita gross regional product of Russia’s regions during the period 1995-2010, when regional data are available. Using a panel regression framework we find no evidence for beta-convergence. Instead we find divergence, which is, however, attenuated over...

The IPAT-model developed by Ehrlich and Holdren is widespread in ecological economics in order to quantify the impact of population growth on environmental deterioration. We comment on this model and extensions proposed by several authors from a theoretical and empirical point of view.